Lyons Automotive sponsored the great car show during the Good Old Days celebration on Saturday, June 24. All registration fees and donations (a little over $1300 total) were presented to Habitat for Humanity of the St Vrain Valley to help with the construction of the six homes they will be building here in Lyons for people displaced by the September 20143 flood. Chuck Wing of Lyons Automotive (left) presented a check to John Lovell last Friday, June 30.

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Thank You Lyons Automotive

Lyons Automotive sponsored the great car show during the Good Old Days celebration on Saturday, June 24. All registration fees and donations (a little over $1300 total) were presented to Habitat for Humanity of the St Vrain Valley to help with the construction of the six homes they will be building here in Lyons for people displaced by the September 20143 flood. Chuck Wing of Lyons Automotive (left) presented a check to John Lovell last Friday, June 30.

Things to Do in Lyons This Week

Summer has certainly arrived. One hundred degrees earlier this week according to the Lyons Elementary School's new digital thermometer! Woe is me!

SUNDAY, JULY 23 – The Rockies vs. the Pirates at Coors Field at 1:10 p.m. We'll be celebrating my birthday! For tickets to to: Rockies.com/DASRDC (promo code DASRDC; your ticket will help the Denver Area Square Dance Council have 700 people, which allows them to square dance on the northwest end of the field at 11:30, with other entertainment and the game. Only $10 for tickets in lower section of 144-148. A great opportunity to see the Rockies at a reduced rate, and great opportunity to take your kids to a game. The more the merrier! You can even ride the RTD bus for $9 a seat from 8th & Coffman (Roosevelt Park) at 11 a.m., or 11:15. Take a big hat and enjoy the day!

By Linda PeconeWhile eating whatever you wish without worrying about the consequences can be detrimental to your health, healthy eating does not have to be about eating foods you do not like. Revamping your eating can be about the satisfaction of taking care of your health, in addition to enjoying what you eat. Eating well isn’t expensive if you do it right. You don’t have to have a fancy dehydrator or juicer in your kitchen to eat healthy. You don’t need fancy kitchen gadgets to eat right.

By Joseph LekarczykThe Board of Trustees (BOT) held a pre-meeting workshop Monday evening to “conceptually” discuss their desires and ideas for a request for proposals (RFP) for the development of Lyons Village East (aka the Eastern Corridor; aka the ten-acre decommissioned waste water treatment plant recently purchased by the Town of Lyons from the City of Longmont). The consensus among the Trustees seemed to be, follow the guidelines set forth in the Comp Plan, make the request broad enough not to dissuade nor favor any particular developer (large or small), but, to put a fine enough point on it so that potential developers will understand what the town wants and needs in the realm of future development (i.e., hotel, affordable

Former Lyons resident John Freeborn (LHS class of 1995) is the Senior Ranger at Ridgway State Park. John has worked full time forCPW since 2004. On June 18, of this year John was driving to work when a vehicle swerved into his lane causing a high speed, head-on collision. John suffered serious injuries and had to be life flighted to Grand Junction. John has had several major surgeries